“Unbroken”, about WWII hero Zamperini, was written by Hillenbrand, a female.
Laura Hillenbrand. I had forgotten her first name. Also wrote “Sea Biscuit”.
After reading that book I decided I would never have a bad day again in my life.
I have enjoyed both “Unbroken” and “Seabiscuit” by Laura Hillenbrand.
This is a silly conversation in general.
Men like books written by men, because we find the subject matter preferable and we also connect with the way men tell stories because we generally find it more approachable for us.
If a woman writes a good book, we read those too, but less often.
Women like books written by women for the same reasons, and women will read books by men if they are well written.
My wife and I both have a huge number of audiobooks. As an experiment, I picked up my smart phone and looked at the first fifty audiobooks on my phone, then looked at her smart phone and did the same analysis.
On my phone, of the first 50 I looked at, five of them were by female authors: The War Against Boys, Atlas Shrugged, The Third Terrorist, Gone With The Wind, and The Genius of Birds. I enjoyed all of them. All the rest of the audiobooks I looked at are biographies about men like Grant, Washington and Churchill, books on warfare such as Shattered Sword, Gates of Fire, The Odyssey, Witness, Neptunes Inferno, and various books on leadership, science fiction, a large number of political books including many from Thomas Sowell and other books along those lines.
Then I looked at my wife’s smart phone. My wife rents books from the library, and I know from experience (because I am the one who rips them from CD disks and turns them into Audiobooks for her, so I know) hers are all the exact opposite books from mine that I would never be interested in reading. When I looked through HER first fifty audiobooks, there are almost all books by female authors like Nine Women One Dress, Surprise Me, The Perfume Collector, Ooana Out of Order, The Wife and The Widow, The Other Mrs., The Valley of Amazement, etc. I found two books written by men, The Last Painting of Sara De Vos and The Splendid and The Vile. She has very few war, very few history, and no political books.
I don’t feel the least bit of anything over the fact that she reads 20 times more female than male authors, and I am certain she feels absolutely no angst that I read at least 10 times more books written by men than by women.
Men and women are different, see things differently, and approach things differently. It has been this way since there have been men and women.
I know the author of this article was referencing some feminist Leftist writer for the Guardian, and correctly categorizes her opinions as elitist because she thinks men don’t take women seriously. I know that is what elitist feminist turds like that writer at the Guardian think, and it does make me roll my eyes.
Good God. It is a fundamental difference between the way men and women operate. Overall, men just aren’t that interested in delving into those kinds of subjects that interest most women, and the opposite is true. This makes feminist idiots crazy, because they refuse to believe women are hard-wired differently than men are. They think it just because men are out of touch with their feminine side and are somehow deficient because of it.
Well, yeah. We ARE out of touch with our “feminine side” because we ARE men.
I find it fascinating that the most astute, knowledgeable, capable, and likable women (in my eyes, at least) understand this concept completely, accept it fully (even if they DO find it occasionally irritating and infuriating) and they file it under “things that make the world go around”.
Why on earth do people have such a difficult time accepting this?